Chapter L

L. on Bacon's Advancement of Learning, 493.
---- coninger or coningry, 241.
---- Lord Clarendon and the tub-woman, 211.
---- nursery rhymes, 455.
---- Ovid's Fasti, passage in, 156.
---- pearl, its etymology, 18. 166.
L. (A.) on child-mother, 526.
La Bruyère (Jean de), his family, 38. 114. 192.
Lad and lass, their derivation, 256.
Lady-day in harvest, 191.
Laicus on prayer for George III., 109.
Lamb (Charles), lines quoted by him, 286. 438.
Lambarde (Wm.) noticed, 208.
Lambert (Major-General), his lady, 237. 269. 364. 459.
Lamech killing Cain, 305. 362. 432. 489.
Lammens (John) on claret, 511.
Lammin (W. H.) on Rev. Wm. Harris, 572.
Lancastriensis on Edmund Spenser, 410.
---- the Whippiad, 457.
Landlords in Lonsdale, 330.
Larking (Lambert B.) on note for London topographers, 34.
Latimer's brothers-in-law, 477.
Latin--Latiner, 423. 622.
Lavall (Baptist Vincent) noticed, 130.
Lavant, origin of the term, 269. 335.
Lavater's Diary of a Self-Observer, 456.
Lawrence (Thomas) on the albumen process, 116.
---- argot and slang, 331.
---- axe that beheaded Anne Boleyn, 417.
---- curtseys and bows, 319.
---- form of prayer for prisoners, 410.
---- goose-footed queen, 332.
---- nicknames, 143.
---- plum-pudding receipt, 318.
---- revolutionary calendar, 143.
---- skull-caps _versus_ skull-cups, 112.
---- wandering Jew, 511.
Lawson (John) and his mathematical MSS., 526.
Lawyers' bags, their colour, 85. 144. 557.
"Lay" and "lie," anecdote of, 222.
L. (B.) on Derby municipal seal, 357.
L. (D. C.) on Erasmus Smith, 108.
Leachman (J.) on Sisson's developing fluid, 534.
Leader, its etymology, 43.
Leamhuil abbey, 108.
Leapor's Unhappy Father, its scene, 382.
"Le Balafré," ascribed to Henry, duke of Guise, 201.
Lechmere (Baron), his portrait, 39.
Left hand, its etymology, 306.
Legend of change, 8.
Legends, coincident, 591.
Legitimation, 17.
Leicestriensis on exercist day, 205.
---- Gen. Monk and Cambridge University, 427.
---- Searson's Poems, 131.
---- Whipping Toms at Leicester, 235.
Leigh peerage and Stoneley estates, 619.
Leighton (Abp.) and Pope, 475.
Lenthall (F. K.) on Mr. Justice Newton, 528.
Leonora on astronomical query, 84.
L. (E. P.) on Robert Johnson, 429.
Lepel's regiment, 501.
"Les Veus du Hairon," a romance, 40.
"Letter to a Convocation Man," 358. 415. 502.
Ley (C.) on miniature ring of Charles I., 184.
L. (F. M.) on the albumen process, 217.
L. (G. R.) on Thomas Ceeley, 207.
---- cobb, its derivation, 234.
Library of the Corporation of London, 120.
Lieutenant, its pronunciation, 257.
Lightfoot (Anna) noticed, 595.
Lindis, its meaning, 83.
Lindsay (Sir David), his Viridarium, 231.
Lisle family noticed, 236. 269. 365.
Lister family, 357.
Literary frauds in modern times, 86. 139.
Litten or Litton, its meaning, 383.
L. (J.) on privileges of Campvere, 440.
---- meaning of Lindis, 83.
---- Old Fogie, 559.
L. (J. H.) on burial of unclaimed corpse, 340.
L. (L.) on Denmark and slavery, 286.
Llandudno on the Great Orme's Head, 189.
Llangefelach tower, legend of, 545.
L. (L. B.) on De Thurnham family, 364.
---- Dover castle, its ancient stores, 254.
---- Lady Nevell's music-book, 59.
L. (L. L.) on Grindstone oak, 478.
---- newspapers, 133.
---- tortoiseshell Tom cat, 271.
L. (M.) on nuns of the Hotel Dieu, 477.
L. (M--a) on Francis I., 83.
---- geological query, 261.
---- passage in Wordsworth, 85.
L. (N. C.) on Shaw's Staffordshire MSS., 13.
Loak hen, its meaning, 13.
Localities in Anglo-Saxon charters, 473.
Locke, quotation in, 23.
---- writings, were they ever burnt? 13.
Lode, a river, 464.
Loggerheads, 192. 364.
London, lines on, 258.
---- plan of its present extent, 382 583.
---- queries, 108. 223.
---- topographers, a note for, 34.
Longevity, aged 116, 358. 504. 607.
Longhi's portraits of Guidiccioni, 408.
Lowbell, its derivation, 181. 272. 367. 393. 586.
Lower (Mark Antony) on Allen as a surname, 340.
---- Mac, as a patronymic, 341.
L. (R.) on Norman song, 134.
L. (T. H.) on wood of the cross, 488.
Luneburg table, 355.
Luther's portrait, 498.
L. (W. H.) on popular sayings, 633.
---- Welborne family, 630.
L. (W. N.) on Collier's Notes and Emendations, 377.
L. (Y.) on Sir Josias Bodley, 357.
"Lying by the walls," origin of the phrase, 332.
Lyon (Lord) King-at-arms, 208.
Lyte (F. Maxwell) on developing chamber, 315.
---- improvements in positives, 533.
---- Sir W. Newton's process, 163.
---- Taylor's iodizing process, 364.
Lyte's Light of Brittaine, 570.